Quotes About Expression

You know, I don't like talking about music very much. I have quite the hard time explaining myself.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking onstage.

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

The dilemma I have is that everything I do at work is all about me, and at what point is that selfish? I'm just talking and singing about myself, or I'm standing on a stage and hoping that everybody likes me. Obviously, it's also about the music and feeling and connecting; I know it's deeper than that.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that's all actors and the Sunset Strip. We crave talking to people who do different things and are passionate about it.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

Painted talking heads is just boring.

I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.

I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.

Everything that I do on stage comes from seeing the Black Crowes in '95 in Charlotte. For 'Let Her Cry,' I was just trying to write 'She Talks to Angels.'

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

I'm a South Asian female that talks about relationships and periods and dating and all these things.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'